Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Greenspan battles inflation with a tight monetary policy, he will present the Administration with serious handicaps in meeting its fiscal goals. Any jump in borrowing rates would raise to even more astronomical levels the huge cost of bailing out the S & L industry. While the Administration put the total ten-year price tag at $90 billion when it announced its rescue plan last month, that forecast was swiftly raised to $126 billion. Last week Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady said the cost is now expected to reach $157 billion...
...small independent production company, with the Africa Fund, an antiapartheid organization. Launched last April, the show airs on about 45 broadcast and cable stations across the U.S. Says Globalvision's vice president, Rory O'Connor: "We saw a need for a program on South Africa and decided to jump in both feet first...
Estrada described conditions of social disorder and a breakdown of the Salvadoran educational system. He said that U.S. involvment beginning in 1980 has worsened economic and social conditions. He cited an increase in the unemployment rate from 14 to 70 percent, a jump in illiteracy from 40 to 60 percent and a tripling of food costs...
Penn State: The Nittany Lions have been bogged down in the third position for the past three seasons but feel that this could be the year to jump up to the top spot. The squad is led by senior Dave Rafferty, who should contend for titles in the 200 freestyle and butterfly events...
Picture this: a Barcelona summer afternoon, 1992. The triple-jump finals are about to begin. Al Joyner jogs out to the track and, taking off his USA warm-up jersey, shows off his new, one-legged...